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To all who/m it ma/yconcern:

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.tant @anni s. A. GOODWIN, OF BUFFALO, Nnwronn.v Leners Paten: No.83,277, dated October 2o, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT m WASH-Bomans.

Be it known that I, S. A. GOODWIN, of the city of Bulalo, State of NewYork, have invented certain Improvements in the ConstructionofWash-Boilers; and I do declare that the following is a full and exactdescription of the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawing,and to the letters of reference thereon, the same letters referring tolike parts.

My inventionrelates to the class of wash-boilers, in which thewashing-solution isforced up, by the action of steam, through tubes orconduits from the bottom of the boiler to the top, on to the clothes orother articles washed, and allowed to percolate through or among them tothe bottom again, to be forced up in the same manner in a continuouscirculation.

The object of my invention is to separate the heavy parts of the dirt,discharged from the clothes, from the washing-solution, so as to keep itcomparatively clean.

I accomplishthis vby means of the deposition or subsidence of theseparts in a pan, or p`ans,.or their equivalents, placed at some point orpoints on the line of the circulation.

I take advantage of `the circulation ofthe washingitto flow into a pan,or pans, in which the heavy dirt subsides or settles to the bottom, andthe solution flows over the edges of the same, falling into the currentof the circulation, to be again carried valong with it, that theoperation may be constantly repeated.

I will now proceed to-describe a mode of construction by which thisresult is accomplished, not conning myself, however, to any particularmode or manner of construction, in which the same'object is reached onthe same principle.

Figure I is a vertical longitudinal section of my in- Figure IIrepresents a perspectiveview of the lower settling-pan, with tube forconveying the solution to the top of the boiler. y

Figure III represents a perspective view of the rack on which theclothes rest.

' A is the boiler.- l

D, a rack or its equivalent, on which the clothesrest.

B, a plate or diaphragm, forming, in connection with its rim and thebottom of the boiler, a chamber for the generation of steam, and alsowith its upper rim the lower settling-pan.

.12', a tube to conductv the washing-solution, mixed with steam from thesteam-chamber, to the top of the boiler.

E, the upper settling-pan, in which f represents a mortise near each end(surrounded with a rim) for the more even distribution of the water overthe clothes.

c, pins or legs for the support of D.

c', pins or legs for the support of B. Y

The operation is as follows: The washing-solution is put into theboiler, and then the clothes are laid or spread upon the rack D. Steamis 'then generated in the chamber under B, causing the washing-solutionto flow up through the tube b', because that is the most open and'easiest way for it to flow.

^ W'hen it reaches the top of this tube, it flows into the'settling-pan'E, the heavy dirt settling to the bottom, and the solutionowing over its rim, falling upon the clothes, percolating through them,and falling, through the rack D, on to the lower pan, the heavy dirtsettles in the same, and the solution flows over its rim and under theplate B, when it is again forced up through the tube, in aconstantly-repeated circulation, until the clothes are washed.

If found advantageous,I proposeto cover the bottom of these pans withsponge or other porous substance,

for the purpose of destroying the effects of currents, causedby theflowing of the water into the pan, or I may iind it advantageous toplace near the top of the pan a nely-perforated plate for the samepurpose, or to divide the pan into smaller pans by verticaldivisionplates. p

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by `Letters Patent,is-

1. In a wash-boiler, the separation. and collection from vthewashing-solution of the dirt discharged from the articles washed,automatically, by subsidence or deposition, by means of an elevated panor pans E, or their equivalents, placed at some point or points on theline of circulation, as set forth.

2. The plate B, with its two rims and the settlingpan E combined,substantially as and for the purposes described.

S. A. GOODWIN. Witnesses:

GEO. D. EMERSON, GnorVELzY.

